Search:

In principle yes, you're right, any vulnerability in a web browser that can be exploited on a normal desktop install can be exploited from a live CD.

The difference is that with a desktop install,...

Update: a new BIOS (Shuttle SG45S10T) fixed the 1998MHz problem. It now correctly reports:


cpu MHz : 2500.000

The bogomips value is roughly unchanged, so I assume it was only a...

Normally, being `application/ogg` (as opposed to `audio/ogg`) would be because the file has been named `.ogx` instead of `.ogg`.

The ability to set the ALSA volume level for audio capture seems to be gone. In Karmic and previously this was possible through gnome-volume-control.

Now in Lucid there's a fader for the 'Input'...

You'll definitely need a source install. Ubuntu's own builds are typically compiled without MP3 encoding, for legal reasons.

Stephen: hi! Can you tell us what's new in the 0.8 branch? I can't find...

HTML5 will not replace AJAX (XMLHttpRequest); many HTML5 apps will rely on it.

One of the proposals that has arisen from HTML5 (and, like the best bits, has subsequently been spun off into its own...

soundconverter will queue and process a load of files at once.

You can also just grab BitTorrent Mainline sources (eg. BitTorrent-5.2.2.tar.gz), as the original BitTorrent client was written in Python.

It's not the most pleasant of codebases, but at least...

Have you put a P3P policy up? Any service you make that relies on third-party cookies (by iframes etc.) must talk P3P for IE to allow it, and I believe WebKit (Chrome, Safari) has some support. This...

Sorry, but this is even worse than Windows thinking: it's Mac thinking. It's deciding that malware for OS X can't exist because it isn't widespread at the moment. But the Russians have recently...

I'm not aware of a simple way... I did it by editing ‘/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/(country code)’; you can change the layout there or add your own (if the latter, you'll then have to add it to the...

What is an audio .iso? CD-DA does not contain an ISO-9660 filesystem and isn't burned in the same mode as CD-ROM. I'm unaware of any standard way to put a CD-DA rip into .iso format; normally...

But you would have to either (a) run your desktop completely in that account (useless for day-to-day browsing), or (b) cope with xauth, and be unable to do things like save a file to your desktop...

No I wouldn't. ;-) In Vista I turn it off too; Win7 seems a little better-behaved so far. I wouldn't say *most* software fails in LUA, but certainly some does. It's not really MS's fault and one can...

Always use 'type'. 'language' is the way it used to be done in very old browsers, but it has never been valid in any version of HTML.

Let us not become too smug.

Windows advocates will always reply “but no-one is attacking Linux because no-one uses it!”, and although that's far from the whole story there is certainly some truth...

A Windows virus running through WINE can do the same things as a Linux virus you're running as a normal user: it can trash your documents and settings and leak privacy-sensitive information, but it...

Try toggling the ACPI setting in your BIOS. WinXP will only boot with the setting it had when you installed the OS; Linux will boot with any setting. So if a CMOS reset changes the ACPI setting it is...

PerrGuardian2 is a complete waste of time. It will not help you avoid any agency looking for copyright infringements today. There was a period when they used their own networks to do this monitoring,...

Unfortunately it does not seem to be possible to redesignate the ‘primary’ monitor (at least on my setup with intel graphics).

However you can easily move your GNOME panels to the secondary...

When the you get “Unknown monitor” it means the EDID data can't be read from the monitor. This happens to me due to a kernel bug, but it can also happen if you have a really old monitor from before...

That sounds like it should work in general. Have you tried logging in as those users (or ‘sudo su’) and trying to change into that directory and ‘touch’ a file to see what the error is?

Check that...

Stuart: dead keys is a different way of getting diacriticals than the compose key. However I do agree that the compose key is in almost every way preferable; I would strongly recommend using compose...

I always use boolean mode searches, but it still doesn't let you around MySQL's limitations on what constitutes a word.

Well if you've got a number of predefined values for $size, you can surely...

You need to go into the folder that contains the file, or you won't be able to run it. eg. ‘cd /home/username/Desktop’ if that's where you've saved it.

See the manual for how to set your...